Musicovery

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Musicovery is an interactive and customised webradio. Listeners can intuitively find music matching their mood. The more they listen and rate songs, the more radio programmes get personalized. Musicovery provides also dance mix and similar artist features.

The webradio service is accessible on mobile phone (on 3G/Symbian Nokia Devices).

Music files provided by the service are streamed, not downloaded, and the listener can buy all the songs played or tagged as favorite from usual music retailers (Itunes, Amazon, Ebay).

1 History
2 Technology
3 International service
4 Competitors
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

Musicovery was founded by Vincent Castaignet and Frédéric Vavrille. They combined their technology in January 2006 to create the internet site Musicovery.com. Vincent Castaignet has created the “Mood pad”, a proprietary technology enabling listeners to find intuitively music matching their mood (see Technology). Frédéric Vavrille is the creator of Liveplasma.com, a graphic discovery engine. Liveplasma was created in 2004.

Musicovery webradio was beta-tested in June 2006 and launched in November 2006.

Musicovery team is based in Paris, France.

[edit] Technology

Musicovery relies on the 2 proprietary technologies developed by its founders:

The “mood pad” technology: a music description methodology that enables to position any song on a 2 dimension continuous space (the “mood pad”); songs are described with 40 musical parameters; The technology is the result of 3 year research on music description and human acoustic perception.
A graphical interface based on Liveplasma technology.

[edit] International service

The music catalogs are specific for each country and the site is translated in local languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese and French). The interface is adapted to local specifications where appropriate (for instance country and folk genres are added for the US audience). The popularity scale of each song, a parameter influencing music programming, is specific to each country.